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How can I turn on the windows screen saver?

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How can I turn on the windows screen saver?

by  Michael42  Posted    (Edited  )
Microsoft Windows starts screen savers through the System-menu box on a form. The System-menu box is also known as the Control-menu box in Visual Basic. You can send Windows messages to the Control-menu box by using the SendMessage Windows API (application programming interface) function.

Add the following to the general declarations section of Form1, or to
a .Bas module file, in Visual Basic:

' The following Declare statement must be on one, single line:
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "User" (ByVal hWnd As Integer,
ByVal wMsg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, lParam As Any) As Long

In the following example, a command button starts the Form1 screen saver:

Sub Command1_Click ()
Dim result As Long
Const WM_SYSCOMMAND = &H112

Const SC_SCREENSAVE = &HF140
result = SendMessage(Form1.hWnd, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_SCREENSAVE, 0&)
End Sub

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